African American Movies

Indianapolis has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country. Night School follows three adult students living in the city’s...

Documentary feature exploring the rise of African-Americans to positions of greatness in American sports. Stories are told of boxers, tennis players,...

Real-life kung fu master Nathan Ingram stars in this gritty, low-budget martial arts epic as a local karate school owner who clashes with a gang of...

Filmed on the rooftops of lower Manhattan, this performance film features the original Last Poets performing 28 numbers adapted from their legendary...

Chicago, winter 1965. The Regal Theater hosts James Brown and Solomon Burke, two monuments of Soul music. Backstage, everyone's under pressure. But...

What happens when a bartender on a mission to find her cheating boyfriend gets stuck driving a drunk high-schooler home? Trans Am, emergency room,...

A hired assassin battles time & powerful forces to rid himself of a prototype antitoxin that's been shoved into his bloodstream.

A young woman in a photography class begins taking pictures of black men out of fear they will soon be extinct.

Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of Noble Sissle's incredible journey that spans "The...

Funk legend Sly Stone disappeared from the limelight for more than 20 years. Musicians and the media tried to find the recluse but failed. In 2005...

An African-American family in Georgia works to save money for a power saw. Includes depictions of timber harvest techniques and process. Film made in...

A struggling black college grad wakes up to find that reparations have finally been paid to descendants of slaves in America. With this new found...

Three couples meet up for a summer vacation weekend but secrets, lies, and hard truths come out to spoil the fun.

James Brown changed the face of American music forever. Abandoned by his parents at an early age, James Brown was a self-made man who became one of...

Based on the traditional American folksong, this compelling tale recounts the daring adventures of one family's escape from slavery via the...

In a collection of intimate interviews with some of America's most provocative black conservative thinkers, Uncle Tom takes a different look at being...

Elementary Genocide is a documentary executive produced by award winning journalist/filmmaker Rahiem Shabazz. The documentary appeals to a wide...

African American soldiers throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries faced discrimination and segregation, yet many still chose to fight for their...

Chronicles over four centuries of African American influence on the development of the modern-day United States. Before Plymouth Rock and Jamestown,...

Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt explores what it means to be a Black man in America. Traveling to more than fifteen cities and towns across the...